Transcribe Vietnamese audio to text
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Vietnamese transcription, in detail
Accuracy, the accents we cover, and the words worth teaching your custom dictionary.
Estimated accuracy
Known locally as
Script, left to right
Model
Estimated on clear, single-speaker audio. Recording quality, crosstalk and background noise move this figure further than the language itself does.
Accents and varieties covered
Vietnamese is not one accent. These are the varieties the model is built to handle, so a regional speaker is not a special case.
Northern (Hanoi) Southern (Ho Chi Minh City) Central (Huế)- Speakers
- about 85 million
- Where it's spoken
- Vietnam, with communities in the United States, Australia and France
- Language family
- Austroasiatic, Vietic
- Say hello
- Xin chào
What the output looks like
Timestamped, speaker-labelled, and editable in your browser the moment it lands.
Chúng ta hãy bắt đầu với số liệu của quý trước.
In English: Let's start with last quarter's figures.
Words worth adding to your custom dictionary
Every language has a handful of words any engine has to guess at. In Vietnamese these are the usual ones. Add them to your custom dictionary once and they come back right in every transcript from then on.
| Commonly guessed | What you meant | Why they collide |
|---|---|---|
| ma | mà | Six tones ride on the same three letters. |
| Nguyen | Nguyễn | The commonest surname in the country loses its diacritics. |
| hoc sinh | học sinh | Tone marks are dropped when text passes through English systems. |
Getting the best Vietnamese transcript
Add names and technical terms to your custom dictionary with their tone marks. The marks are the difference between unrelated words, and the dictionary holds them in place.
Record with a close microphone. Vietnamese carries meaning in six tones, and proximity preserves the tone contours that separate unrelated words, whichever region the speakers are from.
Common questions about Vietnamese transcription
Who needs Vietnamese transcription?
Vietnamese broadcasters and digital media, manufacturing and electronics companies documenting operations, market research agencies covering Southeast Asia, and universities and NGOs running fieldwork.
How accurate is Vietnamese transcription?
We estimate around 95.5% on clear, single-speaker Vietnamese audio. Recording quality moves that figure further than the language does, so a close microphone and one person speaking at a time is the biggest lever you have. Names, places and industry terms go into your custom dictionary once and come back right in every transcript after that.
Which Vietnamese accents and dialects are supported?
These varieties: Northern (Hanoi), Southern (Ho Chi Minh City), Central (Huế). The model is built for all of them, so a recording with several accents in the room is handled the same way as one without.
What is distinctive about Vietnamese?
Vietnamese carries six tones on the vowels, marked with diacritics that are the difference between unrelated words. The model writes the tone marks, and it covers the northern, central and southern varieties, which differ enough to be worth naming.
Will Vietnamese text export correctly?
Yes. Vietnamese text (Latin with tone marks) comes through every export unchanged: Microsoft Word, PDF, plain text, and SRT, VTT and Avid DS subtitles. Text direction and diacritics survive the round trip, so a transcript opens the way it looked in the editor.
How long does Vietnamese transcription take?
Most transcriptions are ready in less time than the length of the file. A 60-minute recording is typically processed well under an hour, and you get an email as soon as it is ready.
Can I translate a Vietnamese transcript?
Yes. Pick a target language and click translate: your Vietnamese transcript is translated into any of 60+ languages as a full, editable document with word-level timestamps preserved, so you can export subtitles from the translation just as you would from the original.
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Ensuring accuracy for automatically transcribing Vietnamese audio into text
Just like converting any language audio or video file into text, there are a few tips to follow to get the best results:
Ensure that speakers are not talking over each other and that the recording device is close to the person speaking.
Try to reduce background noise
Try to eliminate any static or echo
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